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Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another installment in this popular series, now running in its ninth season in the Scotsman. Anything could happen to Bertie and the gang....

There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into - a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So, he sets off after the grifters - on a riverboat bound for New Orleans. First, he infiltrates the criminal underworld of the French Quarter. Then, he’s enslaved on a pirate ship heading straight to hell.

'Gripping, moving and elegantly written' Marian Keyes ‘Brilliantly twisty … also so insightful. A triumph’ Lucy Foley 'Totally addictive … keeps you guessing until the end. I read this in one day and absolutely LOVED it!!' FIVE STAR Reader Review 'Wow! Wow! Wow! Full of twists and turns...

Ein großer Familien- und Generationenroman über die DDR und wie sie unterging. Regina Scheer spannt in ihrem beeindruckenden Roman den Bogen von den 30er Jahren über den Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum Fall der Mauer und in die Gegenwart. Sie erzählt von den Anfängen der DDR, als die von Faschismus und Stalinismus geschwächten linken Kräfte hier das bessere Deutschland schaffen wollten, von Erstarrung und Enttäuschung, von dem hoffnungsvollen Aufbruch Ende der 80er Jahre und von zerplatzten Lebensträumen.

Liev se rend à Kosko pour y assurer l’honorable fonction de précepteur. Ou peut-être pas. A Kosko, Liev vivra aussi une belle histoire d’amour. Ou peut-être pas. Le monde est opaque, à moins que ce ne soit l’homme. L’opacité est une maladie mentale. Ou peut-être pas...

Quando l'anziano regista israeliano Yair Moses viene invitato a Santiago de Compostela per una retrospettiva dei suoi film, non sa che dovrà fare i conti con un fantasma del passato: Shaul Trigano, suo ex amico e sceneggiatore, che ora vuole metterlo con le spalle al muro, obbligandolo a portare a termine ciò che era stato interrotto e sembrava perduto. Un romanzo misterioso e profondo.

« Je me revois dans les rues de Châteauroux, à quatre ans, cinq ans, six ans, sept ans… En train d'aller à l'école. Je passais par une petite ruelle pavée, qui longeait le musée. Je me revois avancer entre les murs, en chantonnant les dernières chansons de Sheila, et en contemplant à mes pieds du haut de ma taille les chaussures vernies noires que ma mère venait de m'acheter. Je ne savais rien de ce qu'allait être ma vie. L'avenir ne m'inquiétait absolument pas. Au contraire. » La Nuit au musée de Christine Angot à la Bourse de Commerce. Ou : L'art, dans une vie.

Ana le cuenta a su hijo fragmentos de una vida de pequeñas miserias con las que se han tejido las relaciones personales y familiares. El autor renuncia a narrar los grandes acontecimientos históricos para poner su foco de atención en lo íntimo y cotidiano, en las vidas de unos personajes heridos por la traición y la deslealtad. La buena letra se convierte en deudora de la concepción balzaquiana según la cual la novela es la historia privada de las naciones y descubre los mecanismos que funcionan como silencioso motor de la historia.

A STORY ABOUT FEMALE AMBITION, LEARNING WHERE TRUE POWER LIES, AND EXACTLY WHAT IT COSTS. 'Compelling, relatable characters and a brilliant voice' CONN IGGULDEN 'A tale of power-play, political hope and women's inner strength' ELYSE JOHN _ Fulvia is the daughter of a wealthy but unimportant...

Change is in the air... Down Gilead Lane! College life for Brooke, a new addition to the family, and the office of Mayor for John - all situations that can bring stress, discomfort - and opportunities to trust. The Morrisons learn to turn to God for the answers to all of these changes and more in 12 compelling episodes.

Richard Sharpe, who alone can recognise the top French spy, is under orders to capture him alive. Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is just one man - the ruthless Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, a spy whose network of agents is vital to British victory. Sharpe is forced into a new world of political and military intrigue.

In a Manhattan warehouse, an innocent man has been murdered during a mysterious crime. Evidence points to the involvement of Venom - the alien symbiote obsessed with Spider-Man's destruction. Yet Venom has always safeguarded innocent lives. Has Venom gone completely around the bend, or is there another suspect? Spider-Man thinks there is more to the crime than meets the eye. The specter of the Hobgoblin, one of Spider-Man's nastiest foes, falls on a series of thefts and leads the web-slinger to a deadly secret that may cause New York's destruction. 

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe--a vast and impenetrable thicket of green. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries, the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled, too; now they live in Arden, at the end of Hawthorne Close, and are hardly a family at all.

Someone's getting married. Someone's getting murdered. Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back. Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen do arrives. Is this a chance for Nora to finally put her past behind her? But something goes wrong. Very wrong.

Bei seinem letzten Einsatz ist der Forensiker David Hunter nur knapp dem Tode entronnen. Von einer vollständigen Genesung weit entfernt, quält ihn die Frage, ob er seinem Beruf noch gewachsen ist. Hunter sagt alle neuen Aufträge ab und beschließt, die Body Farm in Tennessee aufzusuchen - eine bekannte Akademie, an der er sein Handwerk erlernte. Dort trifft Hunter einen alten Freund, den er bei den Ermittlungen im Fall eines sadistischen Mordes unterstützen soll...

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” —San Francisco Chronicle In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course...

R is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie, and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can't understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins.

The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Mark Frost bridges the twenty-five year gap beween the second and the third series of Twin Peaks with his compelling sequel - Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. Ahead of the return of the legendary show for a...

Maise O'Malley just turned eighteen, but she's felt like a grown-up her entire life. The summer before senior year, she has plans: get into a great film school, convince her mom to go into rehab, and absolutely do not, under any circumstances, screw up her own future. But life has a way of throwing her plans into free-fall. When Maise meets Evan at a carnival one night, their chemistry is immediate, intense, and short-lived. Which is exactly how she likes it: no strings. But afterward, she can't get Evan out of her head.

Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Mayhem has broken out at Brinkley Court and there would seem to be a desperate need for Jeeves. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. There are more brains in the Wooster household than just Jeeves, you know! Stand back, Bertram Wooster is on the case.